Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Lame Blacksmith

After the Mongols destroyed the Jin, the iron cavalry entered the Song Dynasty, this area is the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty, and the towns are mostly occupied by the Mongol soldiers, and they are ruined everywhere. The iron shop was very simple, with a large anvil in the middle of the entrance, and the ground was full of coal chips and broken iron, and there were a few plowshares and sickles hanging on the wall, and there was no one in the house.

Yang Guo was quite disappointed when he saw this appearance, but he always asked before he came, so he shouted loudly: "Is the master at home?" After a while, an old man came out of the side room, with gray hair, about fifty years old, thinking that he had bent over to strike iron for many years, his back was hunched, his eyes were red and thin from the smoke, his left foot was crippled, and he was holding a cane under his shoulder socket, and said, "What do you command?" ”

Yang Guo was about to answer, when suddenly two people rushed to the door of the store, immediately one was a Mongolian chief, and the other was a Han Chinese, I don't know whether it was an interpreter or a local security. The Han man said loudly: "What about Blacksmith Feng? Come and listen to the commands. The old blacksmith stepped forward and saluted, and said, "The little one is." The man said: "The commander has an order: all the blacksmiths in the town should go to the county seat within three days and be transferred to serve in the army." You'll be in the county tomorrow, do you hear me? Feng Blacksmith said: "The villain is so old...... the Mongolian chief raised his horsewhip and whipped his head, and said a few words in a mumbled voice. The Han said: "It's not tomorrow, be careful that your head moves." So saying, the two of them rode away.

Blacksmith Feng let out a long sigh and was stunned. Yang Guo didn't expect that the Mongolian chief would be so barbaric, and he would whip him for no reason, because he didn't have time to save him. Cheng Ying saw that he was old and pitiful, so he took out ten taels of silver and put it on the table and let him escape. How do you know that Blacksmith Feng sighed: "Thank you for the kindness of the girl, the old blacksmith has lived at this age, and it is nothing to live or die." It's a pity that tens of millions of people in the south of the Yangtze River are about to suffer a catastrophe. ”

The three of them were all taken aback, and they all asked, "Why?" Feng blacksmith said: "The Mongolian marshal recruited blacksmiths to build weapons. Thinking that the Mongolian army has always had sufficient weapons, if it is necessary to add major things, it must be to attack the Song Dynasty in the south. The three of them heard him speak well, and what he said was very reasonable, and when they were about to ask again, Feng Blacksmith said, "What do the three of you want to build?" ”

Yang Guo explained that this thing was extremely peculiar, but after hearing this, Blacksmith Feng did not show surprise on his face, nodded, pulled the bellows to build a furnace, and put two pieces of iron into the furnace to smelt. While waiting, Yang Guo and the other three people's hometowns are all in Jiangnan, although they have been going out since childhood, they are all worried when they hear that their hometown is about to suffer. The three of them looked at the fire, and they all wanted to suffer from this troubled world, human life was low, poverty and misery were everywhere, and although there were difficulties tomorrow, the fear was also a little lighter.

After more than an hour, Feng Blacksmith has finished melting iron, his left hand uses iron tongs to pick up the red-hot iron bar and put it on the anvil, and his right hand raises a big iron hammer to beat, although he is old, his strength is strong, dancing the hammer, it seems that it is not effortless, and he has been beating for a long time, but he saw that he bent two pieces of iron into a rough embryo of a large pair of scissors, and gradually took shape, but saw Li Mochou suddenly to the door. The sharp weapon has not been completed, and the strong enemy is dying. The three of them were on their own guard.

Li Mochou sneered: "Hit a big pair of scissors to cut me and whisk the dust, you dolls can figure it out." I'm just going to sit here and wait for your scissors to be ready, and then it's not too late to fight. As he spoke, he dragged a bench and sat down, but he regarded the three of them as if they were nothing.

Then he asked, "What about Huang Yaoshi?" When the blacksmith heard the word "Huang Yaoshi", his body was shocked, he raised his head and glanced at her, and then lowered his head and continued to strike iron. I only heard Li Mochou say again: "Huang Yaoshi deceived the world and stole his name, so he relied on accepting more apprentices and relying on the crowd to win." Hum! Which of his disciples was really useful? As he spoke, he raised his left hand, waved out the white paper, followed by a slight movement of his arm, a silver needle flew away, nailed the white paper to the pillar, and said: "Leave this as a proof, he is old and evil, so that I can know who killed his two precious apprentices." ”

Blacksmith Feng squinted at the white paper with a pair of red eyes, and saw that the paper read, "Lord of Peach Blossom Island, there are many disciples, with five enemies and one, laughing at the rivers and lakes", the sixteen words of "Peach Blossom Island Lord, with five enemies and one, laughing at the rivers and lakes", stretched out the iron tongs in his left hand, and put the needle and paper together, and threw it into the blazing fire, and the white paper burned to ashes in an instant.

At this time, everyone was extremely surprised. Li Mochou was furious, but he didn't make a hasty move, and asked, "Who is Your Excellency?" Feng Blacksmith said, "Don't you see?" I'm an old blacksmith. Li Mochou said: "Why did you burn my piece of paper?" Feng Blacksmith said: "It's not written on the paper correctly, it's best not to nail it in my shop." Li Mochou shouted: "What's wrong? ”

Feng Blacksmith said: "The Lord of Peach Blossom Island has the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, and as long as his disciples learn his old man's art, they will be able to run rampant in the world." Then he said the martial arts and fame of the four disciples of Chen, Mei, Qu, and Lu, but Li Mochou degraded them and said that three died unexpectedly, and one was missing, and none of them ended well.

Blacksmith Feng raised his head and said sharply: "You aunt is talking nonsense, the disciples of the Peach Blossom Island Lord are all superb in martial arts, how can they all be harmed by others?" Do you deceive me that the countrymen do not know the world? Li Mochou sneered: "You can ask these three little dolls to find out." ”

Blacksmith Feng turned his head to look at Cheng Ying, his eyes revealing an inquiry. Cheng Ying stood up and said gloomily: "My teacher is unfortunate, and the talent is withering. The younger generation is getting started with a shallow and lowly kung fu, and it is a shame that they can't fight for their master. Do you have an old relationship with your teacher? Blacksmith Feng didn't answer, looked her up and down, his expression was full of suspicion, and asked, "Did the Lord of Peach Blossom Island accept disciples again in his later years?" ”

Cheng Ying saw Blacksmith Feng's crippled left foot, and his heart suddenly moved, and said: "The family teacher is old and lonely, and he orders the younger generation to serve with him. It seems that the younger generation is so young and late to learn, but he really can't say that he is a disciple of Peach Blossom Island, and so far the younger generation has not even had the opportunity to step on Peach Blossom Island. When she said this, she admitted that she was a disciple of Peach Blossom Island.

Blacksmith Feng nodded, his eyes were very soft, quite close, and he lowered his head and struck the iron a few times, as if he was thinking about something.

Cheng Ying saw that his iron-striking technique was very similar to that of the Luoying Divine Sword of the Benmen, and he also had a surname, so he understood three points in his heart, and said: "When the family teacher is free, he talks to the juniors, saying that he expelled his disciples from the island back then, and Chen Mei and the others did their own crimes, so that's fine." Qu Lu Wu Feng and the four of them were innocently affected, especially the senior brother Feng Mofeng surnamed Feng, he was the youngest, and his background was very pitiful. The blacksmith burst into tears.

This old blacksmith was none other than Huang Yaoshi's younger disciple Feng Mofeng. When Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng stole the Nine Yin True Scripture and fled, Huang Yaoshi became angry with the disciples left behind, broke their thighs, and expelled them from Peach Blossom Island. Qu Lingfeng, Lu Chengfeng, and Wu Tianfeng all broke their legs, but when they hit Feng Mofeng, they saw that he was young and his martial arts were low, and they suddenly felt pity, so they only discounted his left leg. Feng Mofeng was sad, came to Xianghan from afar, made a living by striking iron in this countryside, and lived in the rivers and lakes for more than 30 years, always in obscurity, but today he heard the news of the teacher. His life was rescued by Huang Yaoshi from the hands of the enemy, and he was raised by the master since he was a child, which is really kind, no matter how Huang Yaoshi treats him, he has no resentment, and after listening to Cheng Ying's words at this moment, he can't help but have mixed feelings and sadness.

After grief, I can't help but think of a recent scene:

A young man came that day, and when he entered the door, he said, "Excuse me, the blacksmith's surname is Feng?" Feng Mofeng just said that the villain is, only to see the young man pick up an iron piece casually and say, "Look at the move!" And he came in a hurry. Feng Mofeng was shocked! Seeing that his moves were fierce and directly killed himself, if he didn't fight back, he would not be killed, so he raised the iron crutch to deal with it. Although he often practiced martial arts by himself, he had never done anything with others, and his whole body trembled a little at the moment, obviously nervous, and every move was quite sluggish, and he found that the young man's martial arts in front of him were extremely high. Compared with his senior brothers and sisters, he learned the least martial arts, and he was lame, but fortunately, he had profound skills, and he barely dismantled to eighty or ninety moves, and he showed traces of defeat, his right wrist was knocked out, and the iron rod narrowly escaped. But the boy didn't take a heavy hand, and turned to go out. He couldn't figure out where the young man came from, but he felt that he was insulted by his teacher, and he couldn't even beat a young man, so he sighed secretly. In the evening, he intensified his exercises.

The next day, the young man came again, and without saying a word, he went straight in. With yesterday's experience in facing the enemy, Feng Mofeng was a little more comfortable this time, and he made dozens of moves, but he was still defeated. He summed up the lesson and practiced again in the evening. He expected that although the young man's martial arts were unfathomable, he had no malicious intentions, so he looked forward to fighting him again.

On the third day, the young man really came again, Feng Mofeng was ready, and the two started fighting when they met, Feng Mofeng was more calm when facing the enemy this time, and he had brought his martial arts into full play. This time, he was defeated by nearly 200 moves, although he was defeated, he was really comfortable, and when he saw that the young man was about to go out, he said: "Young man, please stay,...... Can you tell the old blacksmith why? ”

The young man didn't turn his head, but said lightly: "There will be wicked people coming soon, and it is inevitable that there will be a fight, so I am here to remind you and say goodbye." "I went out and didn't come back. Today, if there is a wicked person, it is the famous Chilian fairy in the rivers and lakes! The young man who came three days ago was Liu Weifeng, because Feng Mofeng had little experience in facing the enemy, he came to train for a few days, so that Li Mochou did not dare to underestimate him, and sure enough, Feng Mofeng saw Li Mochou and had a lot of confidence in his heart.

Yang Guo and Lu Wushuang were surprised and delighted when they heard that Blacksmith Feng was actually Cheng Ying's senior brother, thinking that Huang Yaoshi's disciple was not bad at martial arts, and he was really overjoyed when he suddenly got help in danger. I don't know that he lives in seclusion all the year round, has a weak personality, is obedient, and rarely does anything.

Under Li Mochou's repeated ridicule, Feng Mofeng said: "I don't allow you to touch a single hair of my junior sister, these are my junior sister's friends, don't be ruthless." ”

Li Mochou became murderous and said with a smile: "Then the four of you go together, it's also wonderful." He stood up. Blacksmith Feng was still silent, and according to the sound of striking iron, he was like a singing horn following the gong and drum ideas, beating it, saying a few words, and saying with a glance: "I have been away from the master for more than 30 years, and my martial arts have long been abandoned, so I have to think about it and reason about it in my heart." He pretended to procrastinate, but in fact he was quite scheming, he expected that it would be difficult to win, and he delayed time in order to think of a way to defeat the enemy.

Li Mochou smiled and said: "I have walked the rivers and lakes for half my life, but I have never seen such a person who is in battle to sharpen his guns and rush to hold Buddha's feet, and today is an eye-opener." Feng Mofeng had a wordless conversation with her, and at the same time chatted with his junior sister about the master's recent situation, and his words were extremely respectful.

Li Mochou saw his true feelings revealed, and thought: "The old Huang evil generation of the Grandmaster really has a lot of extraordinary. He beat his disciple like this, and this person was still so loyal and attached to him. ”

While speaking, I saw Feng Mofeng put a big hammer and an iron cane into the furnace to burn until it burned red, it turned out that he was using this to break Li Mochou's dusting skills.

Li Mochou shouted: "Blacksmith Feng, come on!" Feng Mofeng responded and went out of the house, and his dexterity was by no means like a person with a disability. Li Mochou brushed the dust together and hit him directly above the head. Feng Mofeng jumped away sharply, avoiding it very dexterously, hammering and crutches, and shooting at the same time. He stood on the ground with his left foot, a "golden rooster independence" style, as if nailed to the ground, steady and determined, with a blazing heat on the hammer crutch, approaching Li Mochou. Li Mochou saw that he was coming violently, and he didn't dare to engage him head-on, so he jumped and dodged, looking for a gap to fight back.

Li Mochou and Feng Mofeng's skills were originally not far apart, but Li Mochou was rampant in the rivers and lakes, fighting hundreds of battles big and small, and seeing a hundred times more than him. Feng Mofeng was fortunate to have Liu Weifeng trained for three days, the latter was a top master, and three days would have helped him a lot, otherwise he would have fallen behind.

The two have unknowingly dismantled more than 100 moves, and it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat. Li Mochou was anxious, and raised the dust to wave at his chest. Feng Piaofeng blocked it with a hammer. The dust has taken advantage of the momentum to bend over and wrap up the hammer, this is Li Mochou's trick to grab the blade, as long as he grabs and throws it, Feng Mofeng's hammer must be taken off. How do you know that there was a soft sound of sneering, green smoke rose up, everyone smelled a scorching smell, and the tail of the dusty broom had been burned.

This time, Li Mochou not only did not take the opponent's blade, but lost her own blade, she was in danger, threw down the dust handle, and changed to the Five Poisons Divine Palm. At this time, Feng Mofeng turned right and left, dancing with the wind whirring, handy, but seeing green smoke constantly coming out between the two figures, it turned out that Li Mochou's robe was brought to the red-burned hammer crutch, and the pieces were constantly burned. Li Mochou was extremely angry and wanted to slap him to relieve his anger, but Feng Mofeng had the upper hand on the blade, and the hammer crutch was extremely exquisite. Li Mochou wanted to hit him with a palm, but several times he almost touched the hammer and iron crutch, if he hadn't dodged quickly, his palm would have been burned.

Suddenly, Feng Mofeng shouted: "Don't fight, don't fight, you're too unseemly!" One-legged leaped back half a foot.